The closing day of the 2022 Vertical Blue freediving competitors at Dean’s Blue Hole within the Bahamas noticed a unusual world file by Poland’s Mateusz Malina, alongside side five different divers atmosphere continental or nationwide records.
World Fable For Overall Choices Winner Mateusz Malina
Poland’s Mateusz “Matt” Malina residence a unusual world file within the Free Immersion (FIM) discipline with a dive to 127m/417toes. He had residence a nationwide file on Day 3 with a dive to 124m/407toes and attempted the enviornment file on Day 7 nevertheless handiest managed to get to 113m/371toes earlier than returning.
Malina’s Day 9 results earned him the males’s total parts winner’s medal, while Hungary’s Fatima Korok brought the total parts winner with a gold medal amongst the females.
Congratulations Mateusz Malina – Limitless – unusual world file Free Immersion and males’s total winner of Vertical Blue 2022!
Posted by Daan Verhoeven on Thursday, August 11, 2022
Continental Fable For Yun-Chieh Ku
Day 9 noticed Taiwan’s Yun-Chieh Ku residence a unusual males’s continental and nationwide file with a FIM dive to 108m/354toes, surpassing his Day 2 file dive to 106m/348toes.
It used to be Ku’s fourth nationwide file throughout the competitors, which furthermore incorporated a Fixed Weight with Bifins (CWTB) nationwide file with a 96m/315toes dive on Day 8 as well as a Fixed Weight with Monofin (CWT) file on Day 5 with a 108m/354toes dive.
Four Extra Nationwide Recordsdata
Furthermore, China’s Potti Lau dove to 96m/315toes for a males’s nationwide CWTB file.
On the females’s aspect, Lau’s countrywoman Jessea Lu dove to 89m/292toes for a Chinese nationwide CWT file, while Mexico’s Camila Jaber performed an 82m/269toes dive within the CWTB discipline.
Hungary’s Fatima Korok bettered her 56m/184toes file CNF dive from Day 3 with a 62m/203toes dive on Day 9, incomes her the total females’s parts gold medal.
Remaining Day Challenges
The final day of the competitors furthermore noticed some divers now not get what they wished.
Mexico’s Pepe Salcedo used to be gunning for a males’s nationwide file 107m/351toes FIM dive, nevertheless earned a red card for blacking out. South Korea’s Jung A Kim sought a females’s 101m/331toes CWT file nevertheless grew to change into round at 98m/321.5ft.
Turkey’s Sahika Ercumen wished to prolong her 94m/308toes females’s nationwide file residence on Day 1 to 101m/331toes within the CWT discipline nevertheless used to be handiest ready to get to 89m/292toes earlier than turning relief. And the USA’s Enchante Gallardo used to be going for a 90m/295toes FIM nationwide file nevertheless had to turn relief on the 74m/243toes keep.
Plump Day 9 and Overall Results
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Photos of Day 8
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Vertical Blue 2022: Day 9 Photos
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Characteristic Picture by Daan Verhoeven
— With on-residence reporting from Francesca Koe and extra reporting by Stephan Whelan.
